A Larrapin Garden

Like my brother Stephen told me recently about his new garden, it’s just great shopping for groceries in your own yard! Over the last week we’ve harvested zucchini, acorn & butternut squash, plus the pretty white and green squash which came off a plant that was supposed to be an acorn squash… The bell peppers and italian sweet peppers are producing moderately. Meanwhile, the jalapenos are so loaded with peppers they were nearly breaking the plant with the weight!

Green beans and purple hull peas are producing great. Green beans are Kentucky wonder, the bush variety, and it’s won us over the long time favorite blue-lake bush beans. (I’m less fond of the flavor of a pole bean and have less luck with them…)

The purple hull pea variety is ‘coronet’ (from the farmers’ co-op) and they’ve been *the* most productive ones I’ve ever tried. We got a bushel off a 3 x 24 bed. This is the first year we’ve had any luck because purple hulls are the deer’s favorite, favorite veggie of all time it seems. So far, knock on wood, the fence-plus-Ada-combo is working. The tomatoes are Arkansas Travelers which have been wonderfully productive and disease resistant too so far.

Hope you are enjoying the mid-summer bounty! What are you harvesting this week?

Sometimes its hard for me, in the middle of one season, to remember what the opposite season is like! Hard to believe this bounty above all came from a spot that looked like this (below) back in January. Wow!